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Colour‐matching Ability—Can it be Measured?
Author(s) -
LAKOWSKI R.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the society of dyers and colourists
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1478-4408
pISSN - 0037-9859
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-4408.1968.tb02780.x
Subject(s) - colorimeter , matching (statistics) , computer science , artificial intelligence , task (project management) , pattern recognition (psychology) , mathematics , computer vision , statistics , optics , engineering , physics , systems engineering
Conventional colour‐vision tests can be used for selecting colour workers, and to do this it is necessary to assess the predictive value of the tests in some particular industrial task involving colour. Little research on this topic has so far been carried out, but the results of four such studies are examined, showing that, when the task is simple and entails only the recognition and correct naming of well‐known colours, dichromats alone fail to carry it out. For this purpose, the use of tests capable of detecting such colour defects is sufficient and this also applies if the matching of identical colours is involved. However, if it is necessary to measure competence in matching using a visual colorimeter, only the anomaloscope is capable of doing so.